A new survey by professor
Guo Liang of the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences into attitudes and habits of 103 million Chinese Internet users has come up with some
interesting material.
Here is the survey (in PDF format).
The survey,
presented on Thursday at the Brookings Institute in the U.S., was the second done with international funding from the
Markle Foundation and already has been widely quoted in
the U.S. and European media, including the
International Herald Tribune and
CNN.
A few of the key findings, according to CNN:
- The overwhelming majority of Chinese feel that some Internet content -- such as
pornography and violence -- should be regulated.
- Although the average Chinese Internet user spends nearly three hours a day
online, 75 percent have never made an Internet purchase and 42 percent never
use a search engine.
- Eighty-five percent spend their time viewing mainland Chinese-language
content, while only 3 percent viewed overseas foreign-language content.
